OrthJBC - Colossians - 2

2:1  For I want you to have da'as of how great a struggle I have for you and the ones in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me panim el panim (directly, in person),

2:2  that their levavot may be given chozek (strength), having been united together in ahavah and in all osher (wealth) of the full assurance of binah (binah), resulting in the da'as of the raz of Hashem, namely Moshiach,

2:3  in whom is nistar (hidden) all the otzarot (treasures) of chochmah and da'as. [Yeshayah 11:2; Yirmeyah 23:5]

2:4  This I say so that no one may delude you with rhetoric.

2:5  For, though absent in basar, but present with you in the Ruach Hakodesh, with lev same'ach (glad heart) I am seeing your order and the firmness of your [orthodox Jewish] emunah in Moshiach.

2:6  Therefore, as you became mekabel Moshiach and received Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, so let your halichah be in him,

2:7  having been rooted and built up in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and being firmly founded in the emunah as you were given Messianic [orthodox] lernen [study], abounding in hodayah (thanksgiving).

2:8  Beware lest there be anyone of you taken captive through hashkafos (philosophy) and empty deceit according to the kabbalah (oral tradition) of mere men, according to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh and not according to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach;

2:9  because in Moshiach kol melo Elohim (all the plentitude of G-d) finds its bodily maon laShekhinah (dwelling place for the Shekhinah).

2:10  And you have been granted melo (plentitude) in Moshiach, who is the Rosh of all rule and authority.

2:11  In Moshiach also you were circumcised with a Bris Milah not made with human hands, a Bris Milah of the surgically removing of the guf (body) of the basar (old fallen and unregenerate nature) in the Bris Milah of Moshiach,

2:12  having been buried together with him in Moshiach's tevilah, with whom also you were raised together through your emunah and bittachon in the ma'aseh of Hashem who raised Moshiach from the mesim.

2:13  And you -- being dead in your pesha'im (Yeshayah 53:8) and your orlat basar (uncircumcision of flesh)-- he made alive together, you together with Moshiach, having granted you selicha (forgiveness) for all your pesha'im;

2:14  having erased the hand-signed certificate of guilt-indebtedness (choiv, debt), the heavenly indictment against us in the maleh chukat haTorah (full statute requirement of the Torah), which was against us. Moshiach has done away with this opposing record, having nailed it to the aitz.

2:15  Having disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by Moshiach's aitz [Devarim 21:23; 27:26]. RAV SHA'UL IS NOT CONDEMNING ANY YOM TOV AS SUCH BUT THE USE OF THESE TO TEACH WHAT CONTRADICTS THE TRUE MESSIANIC JEWISH FAITH OF ORTHODOX SECOND TEMPLE APOCALYPTIC TORAH JUDAISM

2:16  Therefore, let no one judge you [Goyim] in eating and in drinking or in respect to a yom tov or a rosh chodesh or Shabbos; [Vayikra 23:2; Divrey Hayamim Alef 23:31]

2:17  which are a shadow of the things to come in the Olam Haba; but the reality, the substance, is Moshiach.

2:18  Let no one deprive you of the prize by delighting in his mystical asceticism and his veneration of malachim and delving into his visions and being vainly puffed up by the machshavot (thoughts) of his basar (old nature unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh),

2:19  and not holding on to the Rosh, out of whom all the Moshiach's Guf (Body), being fully supplied and being be'ichud (united) together through the joints and ligaments, grows with the growth of Hashem. PSEUDO-JEWISH MYSTICAL SOPHISTRY MASKING FALSE DOCTRINE BY USING LEGALISTIC EMPTY FORM TO COUNTERFEIT THE TRUE SUBSTANCE OF MOSHIACH AVAILABLE BY EMUNAH HERE AND NOW

2:20  Als (Since) you died with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh, why, as though you still belonged to the keyam (existence) of the Olam Hazeh, do you (Goyim) chain yourself to legalisms?

2:21  "Do not touch; do not taste; do not handle."

2:22  The things referred to are all destined to deterioration with use, according to the humanly contrived mitzvot and the humanly contrived chukim (laws) of mere bnei Adam [Yeshayah 29:13],

2:23  which things have a superficial appearance of chochmah in self-imposed religion and mystical asceticism and severe physical mortification, but are of no value against the indulgence of the basar (the old nature unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh).